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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    I's be a bit worried about spreading too much acetone around as can make a bit of a mess of paintwork?
    You would want to be a bit careful with your nail varnish as well!

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    I may have mentioned this before, but.... I've been using 'Mouse Milk' for years now. I haven't found a better penetrating oil - and it's a great lubricant with very low viscosity too - and it doesn't just evaporate or turn to carbon when heated, even at high temperature.
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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    When I tried it acetone and ATF would not mix. Having tried it I am still skeptical that it is that good. Using diesel on it's own would probably be just as good.
    No it doesn't. you need to shake it before use. I read an article from a car magazine website about a trial of different penetrants. It was not exactly lab conditions, but they concluded that ATF and acetone worked the best of those tried.

    My father used to swear by diesel. It is thicker than ATF tho.

    Oil of wintergreen is another one I have read about.

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    I learned I should probably not post this photo of something I did today as there will be pitchforks at dawn on my doorstep

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    RC, a mans gotta do, what a mans gotta do. If no special tool is available, we use what is and can do the job. If I didn't have a wood lathe I'd do the same, actually have turned Aluminimum on the wood lathe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oldneweng View Post

    My father used to swear by diesel. It is thicker than ATF tho.

    Oil of wintergreen is another one I have read about.

    Dean
    Dean,
    My father used to swear about it for a different reason . Dad was a watchmaker and a few of his customers brought in watches that were penetrated with diesel. Watches may indeed be waterproof even to 100m .The very same watches are not diesel proof.Diesel and watch seals don't play together.

    Oil of wintergreen according to what I read on the net somewhere, was used by the US Navy in WW2 to penetrate and loosen seized threads.I make my moose milk with ATF, acetone and oil of wintergreen (methyl salycitate ).

    Another medicine chest item used by the USAF was Milk of Magnesia coated on engine bolts to prevent seizing and allow easy disassembly. I am grabbing a bottle of Oil of wintergreen every time I hit the chemists as these handy compounds are disappearing as time goes by.


    I checked at the local chemists and Milk of Magnessia is not sold in the chemists anymore but only available as a component of antacids.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    I learned I should probably not post this photo of something I did today as there will be pitchforks at dawn on my doorstep
    Aaarrrgghhh
    now you have posted it, I can't unsee it.
    Pistols at dawn my good man, you have just been slapped with a gauntlet!!
    Oh wait, I did the same thing machining some redgum bearings for a sugar elevator.
    Please disregard previous threats.
    At least you will clean it up richard.

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    A mate of my father used to own a logging machine repair shop in the bottom of the Manning Valley. In the good times, they were servicing a lot of heavy machinery that was getting used and abused by the logging business but the local farmers also used to bring their share of implements in for service and repair. One of the more memorable was an older fella who had to drive his tractor down to the workshop from the top of the mountains. The old fella had successfully diagnosed a smashed piston in the tractor, which would normally be a bit of a show stopper, but not having the tractor handy makes repair a lot harder. He found the least worst bit of redgum firewood out of the stack and took it into his own workshop and whittled a piston out of it on his wood lathe. The piston didnt look long for the world by the time the tractor rolled into the workshop, but it did make the 50 odd kilometre journey!

    I think I can forgive you RC, so long as you got the tractor going at the end of it!

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    I wouldnt dream of it.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    I learned I should probably not post this photo of something I did today as there will be pitchforks at dawn on my doorstep

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    Must be an agricultural thing!

    I drilled out the end of a pitchfork handle recently so I could fit the fork head into it. It is very hard to find new handles for pitchforks these days. This was actually a long shovel handle with the bent end section cut off. I have to do another handle soon which is thinner and longer. I think this is a rake handle. I will see whether the shorter fatter one or the longer thinner one is best in use.

    Not a shade on your efforts tho Richard.

    I have just picked up a wood cutting bandsaw and am thinking about a jointer. Maybe I could just use the mill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oldneweng View Post
    I have just picked up a wood cutting bandsaw and am thinking about a jointer. Maybe I could just use the mill.

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    I used to cut Al plate with a fine (100) tooth 300 mm WW blade on my Table Saw but a few years back I bought a negative rake blade especially designed for Al, plastic and composites and it is now the blade I tend to leave on the saw as it cuts wood a little better (albeit slowly) than the WW blade cuts Al.

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    Richard, what were you making.
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    I am bandwidth restricted until the 1st so while I have a video of what it was for, I can not upload it as I do not want to run out of internetz.
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    I dont feel so abusive of my mill now

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